Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert (R) apologized after writing a Facebook comment earlier in the week in which she called a Korean woman a “Facebook troll” who “hides behind symbols,” the Omaha World Herald reports.
The symbols to which Stothert was referring were actually letters of the Korean alphabet that spelled the name of her constituent.
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